A counter-protester in Tallahassee pulled a gun on Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday after a fight erupted. The man will not be charged, as the city found the counter-protester was “lawfully defending himself.” Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. The police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin has sparked protests around the country. […]
Montreal’s downtown statue of Sir John A Macdonald was also decapitated in 1992 Activists in Montreal have pulled down a statue of Canada’s first prime minister Sir John A Macdonald, who was linked to cruel policies that killed many indigenous people in the late 19th Century. Video captured the moment the statue’s head flew off […]
Chadwick Boseman and Barack Obama Twitter/Chadwick Boseman Back in the summer of 2017, Barack Obama fired off this tweet in the wake of the Charlottesville car attack that killed activist Heather Heyer as violence broke out at a white nationalist rally. As you can see, that tweet garnered 4.3 million likes, a record that was […]
A leaked Louisville Metro Police Department memo shows investigators had more evidence than previously made public showing a connection between Breonna Taylor and the main target of the narcotics probe that led officers to barge into her home the night she was shot dead by police. But the memo was written several weeks after Taylor’s […]
‘The Big Move’ is a new MarketWatch column looking at real estate and work-life balance. Do you have a question about buying or selling a home? Do you know where your next move should be? Email Jacob Passy at jpassy@marketwatch.com. Dear MarketWatch, I’m a tech worker in Silicon Valley, and my company recently informed us […]
MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Apple Inc.’s stock price will appear quite a bit lower Monday morning, but investors shouldn’t fret. See full story. What the Federal Reserve inflation policy means for your retirement savings Low interest rates can be a blessing or a curse See full story. These ‘Dividend Aristocrat’ stocks have been raising their dividends […]
The only thing to fear about the stock market in September is fear itself. That’s important because September’s reputation as a poor month for equities is well-known. Since the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.56% was created in the late 1800s, the Dow has fallen an average of 1% in September. The Dow’s gain in […]
Taxation of retirement income is an important issue. People with significant 401(k) holdings are going to owe the government a meaningful portion of their pile in taxes. In the process of calculating how large that tax burden might be, it was necessary to review the taxation of Social Security benefits. Read: The money in your […]
Netflix Inc. is rolling out the big names with a slate of prestige releases in September 2020. Those include Ryan Murphy’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” prequel series “Ratched” (Sept. 18)), starring Emmy-winner Sarah Paulson as the notorious nurse; the astronaut drama series “Away” (Sept. 4), starring Oscar-winner Hilary Swank; “Enola Holmes” (Sept. 23), […]
The presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has tightened after this week’s Republican National Convention, according to a new Yahoo News-YouGov poll, with Biden’s lead shrinking to 6 points — his smallest margin in nearly two months. The convention appears to have boosted perceptions of Trump’s “strength” and convinced a small number of […]